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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

WILLIAM F. JORDAN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

'WROUGHT-IRON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,901, dated January 23, 1883.

Application filed January 16, 1882. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. JORDAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Brooklyn, in thecountyot' Kings and State New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Utilizing the Iron Plates in Tin-Scrap; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

It is known that these iron plates or scraps, as they are found after the removal of the tin coating, are deficient in carbon; and my invention consists in recarbonizing them in the manner described, for the purposes of Wrough tiron.

My process is as follows: Haring first removed the tin coating from the tin-scrap by any of the well-known processes, preferably by the use of caustic and nitrate of soda in solution, I proceed as follows: To and with the iron scraps so cleaned and free from tin I add and mingle, first, cinder-by preference charcoal forge-cinder-or, second. wroughtiron turnings, or, third, both, in such proportions as the kind and quality of the cleaned tin scrap used may requirethat is to say, I would use more of cinder or other powerful carbonizeras the condition of the scrap seemed to require.

Vhen the wrought-iron turnings are used ordinarily about fifty parts of same should be added to and mingled with fifty parts of the cleaned tin -scrap. When cinder alone is used about ten parts of cinder should usually be taken to ninety parts of the cleaned tin scrap. When both are used together generally about ten parts of cinder and thirty parts of wrought-iron turnings should be added to sixty parts of cleaned tin-scrap. Wroughtiron borings, punchings, filings, cuttings, clippings, (other than tin clippings,) or any wrought-iron in pieces, may be substituted at pleasure for the wrought-iron turnin gs above.

The parts being mingled, I compress the whole into a block or bundle, as well as may be, of any required size or shape, and this done I snbjectthe, block or bundle to a welding-heat, which may be applied in a sunken fire or in a heating or other furnace, and then hammer into a bloom or billet, which is thus made ready'for the rolling-mill and other uses of Wrought-iron.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent Wrought-iron composed of the reclaimed iron plates. in tin scrap and forge cinder, wrought-iron turnings, borings, or other carbonaceous tnaterial, substantially as herein set forth.

. W. F. JORDAN. Witnesses:

EDWIN O. LOWE, JACOB NEU. 

